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Erie Canal Feeder

Genesee Valley Canal (1838–1878) Ford Street River Campus (1930) Bridge

Erie Canal Feeder (1822–1918)

Elmwood Avenue You are here Original Erie Railroad (1854–1940) Erie Canal Mt. Hope (1822–1918) Cemetery (1892–1985) TheThe CanalCanal andand RiverRiver MeetMeet RailroadsRailroads onon CampusCampus

Rapids Lake Ontario Before the settlement of Rochester and the building of the Erie Canal, the Genesee Upper Falls - Rochester’s first steam railroad began River had numerous rapids and several waterfalls between here and Lake Ontario. 14 feet service to Batavia in May 1837. A line After construction of the Erie Canal began in 1817, engineers decided that the to Auburn began service as far as Erie Canal (1825) Elmwood Erie Rochester Rome canal would cross the Genesee River in an aqueduct located in the tiny village of Middle or Main Falls - Canandaigua in September 1840. The Niagara Lockport Batavia Railroad Utica Avenue Railroad Falls (1837) Erie Canal Rochesterville. The canal was built in several phases and the section east of Roch- Bridge Bridge 96 Feet Rochester and Genesee Valley Rail- Canada (1825) Batavia Syracuse Mohawk Ri (1888) UR River (1854) Upper Step, Auburn Auburn v ester opened in 1822. A dam was built across the Genesee River just south of here road began construction of a six-foot Buffalo Railroad Campus Lower Falls - ) (1840) 8 Erie Canal to divert water into a feeder canal and also allow boats to travel between the canal broad-gauge track in 1851 to connect 3 (1825) (1930) 25 Feet Lake 8 and river. The aqueduct was opened the following year to carry canal traffic over l (1 Rochester with the Erie Railroad, which a Lower Step, Erie n a the river. In October 1825 the canal was completed, allowing boats to travel from completed its line from the Hudson C r Lower Falls y e Genesee River before 1820 iv Dansville Dunkirk lle Lake Erie to Albany, where they could navigate the Hudson River to City. 85 feet River to Lake Erie that same year. The a R V e e e Erie Railroad e s railroad ran out of money after connec- s e Rochester Branch (1851) e n n e of Erie Railroad The poor construction of the original 1823 aqueduct soon became apparent, and tion was eventually completed, and the e G (1854) Feeder canal - approx G 506 feet above sea level First Aqueduct - 1823 the state approved construction of a replacement in 1837, but it was not finished line later became the Rochester divi- Corning Binghamton Elmira until 1842. The state had also approved construction of the Genesee Valley Canal Upper Falls - 14 feet sion of the Erie Railroad before being Olean New York

on the west side of the river and—to ensure that traffic on the canal could not be Feeder Dam abandoned in the 1940s. Allegheny River Susquehanna River H interrupted if the first aqueduct failed—the feeder canal was connected with the Middle or Main Falls - Pennsylvania Delaware River Genesee Valley Canal across the Genesee River. The feeder canal was rebuilt in 96 Feet The first rail line here opened in 1842 to supply additional water for the enlargement of the Erie Canal east of Upper Step, Lower Falls - 1854. Along with the rest of the Rochester. A new feeder dam was built about 400 feet downstream of the original 25 Feet Erie, the six-foot track was Erie Railroa (1851) feeder dam, but it diverted so much water away from downtown mills that the mill Lower Step, changed to the standard 4-ft., owners obtained a court injunction, and the Monroe County Sheriff dynamited the Genesee River 1822 - 1920 Lower Falls - 8 1/2-in. gauge in a single day new dam as a public nuisance. All of the water for the western portion of the Erie 85 feet in July 1881. The Lehigh Valley New Canal was supposed to come from Lake Erie, but continued demands for water Railroad was built parallel to the Jersey from the Genesee River led to construction of a third dam in 1864. Water from the 512 feet above sea level Second Aqueduct opened 1842 Erie in 1892, running along the Genesee River became less important as improvements enlarged the canal west (Now lower part of Broad Street Bridge) eastern side of the river to of Rochester after the Civil War. . The map Barge Court High Falls - to the right shows the two rail- The New York State Barge Canal was opened in 1918, replacing the original Erie Canal roads on a 1905 map, along (1918) Street 80 Feet Canal with a larger canal about one mile south of here. The Barge Canal project Dam with the canal feeder and dam. The Lehigh Valley line later became included building a new dam at Court Street (two miles north of here) to raise the Middle Falls - 25 Feet part of the Conrail system. It was river water level to 512 feet above sea level and dredging the river bottom to deep- abandoned in the mid-1980s, and the en the navigation channel to 12 feet, allowing barges to reach a new barge terminal Lower Falls University built a long narrow parking in downtown Rochester. Material from the dredging was used to fill in the feeder Genesee River after 1920 85 Feet lot on the former railroad right of way. canal and build an embankment for flood control along the river. After the Barge Canal opened, the original Erie Canal through downtown Rochester and the aque- duct was no longer needed for canal traffic. The Broad Street Bridge was built above it, and the old canal bed was used for the Rochester subway until the early 1950s.

HopeHope HospitalHospital

The City of Rochester built Hope Hospital here in A smallpox epidemic broke out in Rochester in 1901, Tents at Hope Hospital during the smallpox epidemic. Three young smallpox After opening a new municipal hospital on Waring Road, the city burned the old hospital on 1869 to house patients with contagious diseases. killing 101 people. Patients were housed in tents and victims at Hope May 11, 1903, to prevent infection. This picture was taken around 1900. temporary buildings at the hospital. Hospital.

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